
The true-crime classic and basis for the renowned 1979 Clint Eastwood film: a "dramatic and] thrilling" (Los Angeles Times) account of life inside Alcatraz, where America's most violent and notorious prisoners resided in tortuous proximity to one of the world's favorite...

Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone; "Machine Gun" Kelly; Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as "The Rock." This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were...

The true-crime classic first published in 1963 is reissued in this special edition. Bruce chronicles in spell-binding detail the Rock's transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such famous inmates as the Birdman of Alcatraz and Al Capone...



